PROVISIONS RUN SHORT. "5 ground, upon which neither Base nor Abyssinian dare live for fear of each other.

As we were running short of dJmri'a, and found that, contrary to what we had been led to expect when leaving Haikota, it was a very scarce commodity in the Base country, it became a very important question to decide what was to be done in order to replenish our supply. Our native servants depended greatly upon it for food ; and it was, moreover, an absolute essential for our horses. After some difficulty, and on promising a handsome baksheesh, we found some of the more intrepid among our camel-drivers willing to go with their camels to the Egyptian frontier town of Amedeb to purchase some. Besides dJiiirra, we told them to bring back some cotton cloth to distribute among the Base. There was nothing we found they prized so much ; for, as they were at constant loggerheads with the Egyptians, it was almost impossible for them to procure it. They started on their journey on the afternoon of Feb. lo.